This game is currently in the Humble Choice for July 2023, and this is part of my coverage of the bundle. If you are interested in the game and it's before August 1st, 2023, consider picking up the game as part of the current monthly bundle.
Massively Multiplayer Pokemon.
TemTem doesn’t hide its influences, your neighbor who is a professor has you choose from three TemTems. Your rival then challenges you with her TemTem. You then go on a major journey, collecting new TemTem in the grass, capturing them by weakening them and then using Temcards, and so on.
The thing is, everything TemTem does is almost exactly like Pokemon, which is a good thing. There are a lot of attempts to imitate the formula, but TemTem comes the closest and adds the ability to do a Massive Multiplayer game as well.
But the thing is… they shouldn’t have. Online gameplay adds a lot of complexity to any game, and maybe I’m not far enough but I already spent an hour and I don’t see a reason for this to be online only. Well now I kind of do, because of course, there’s a Battle Pass and a cosmetic store. As much as I enjoy the game, I still have to call this out because there’s no reason for that, and it’s probably the only reason this game is forced to be online only. It would have been nice to see an offline-only character for people who don’t care about the MMO aspects because there are none.
Pick this up if you want a Pokemon game but also to be able to play it online. There is supposed to be co-op available here, and the MMO isn’t horrible, I just don’t understand why the game needs it. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited to play more of this game. There’s just something that works well with the Pokemon formula and works well with TemTem in the same way
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Massively Multiplayer Pokemon.
TemTem doesn’t hide its influences, your neighbor who is a professor has you choose from three TemTems. Your rival then challenges you with her TemTem. You then go on a major journey, collecting new TemTem in the grass, capturing them by weakening them and then using Temcards, and so on.
The thing is, everything TemTem does is almost exactly like Pokemon, which is a good thing. There are a lot of attempts to imitate the formula, but TemTem comes the closest and adds the ability to do a Massive Multiplayer game as well.
But the thing is… they shouldn’t have. Online gameplay adds a lot of complexity to any game, and maybe I’m not far enough but I already spent an hour and I don’t see a reason for this to be online only. Well now I kind of do, because of course, there’s a Battle Pass and a cosmetic store. As much as I enjoy the game, I still have to call this out because there’s no reason for that, and it’s probably the only reason this game is forced to be online only. It would have been nice to see an offline-only character for people who don’t care about the MMO aspects because there are none.
Pick this up if you want a Pokemon game but also to be able to play it online. There is supposed to be co-op available here, and the MMO isn’t horrible, I just don’t understand why the game needs it. I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t excited to play more of this game. There’s just something that works well with the Pokemon formula and works well with TemTem in the same way
If you enjoyed this review or want to know what I think of other games in the bundle, check out the full review on or subscribe to my Youtube channel: https://youtu.be/Sx8Q4qAQKiU